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Big Stu-ey: Competent Football (w/ Willie Colon) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: It is great to see Willie Colon, and he is
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  Speaker 1: a busy man. New podcast, The Barton Willie Show. You
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  Speaker 1: can find it on Apple or YouTube. Good Morning Football
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  Speaker 1: on ESPN, Steelers Radio Daily, 12 to 2 on iHeart, SNY,
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  Speaker 1: Jets pre- and post-game show. Willie, why are you doing
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  Speaker 1: so much, man? What's going on with you?
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  Speaker 2: Because my wife's expensive and my kids and my damn
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  Speaker 2: kids are expensive. And you would think after having a
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  Speaker 2: long NFL career, being a Super Bowl champ. and acquired
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  Speaker 2: enough money to make an honest living for the rest
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  Speaker 2: of my life, you'd think that would be enough. My
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  Speaker 2: kids need the Wi-Fi. My wife likes restaurants. And so
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  Speaker 2: I continue to be overweight and work for the man.
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  Speaker 1: So there's never enough is what you're saying, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Never enough, dog. Never.
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  Speaker 1: How'd you start the show with Bart? How did this
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  Speaker 1: show come together? I'm excited to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Bart got his ass fired, so he needed to
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  Speaker 2: do it. No, no. Well, I mean, he did. You're right. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he did. Right. He did. I've been fired, so I
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  Speaker 2: can't throw rocks. With all that said, no, we have
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  Speaker 2: been thinking about this for some time. The timing just
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  Speaker 2: was never right. We were we were kind of stewing.
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  Speaker 2: And actually, before we got the call from Playmaker to
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  Speaker 2: eventually do this, we me and him was kind of
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  Speaker 2: in the lab and working on something ourselves. It just
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  Speaker 2: so happened that Bart had got a call from Playmaker.
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  Speaker 2: He told them, hey, man, if I do this, I
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  Speaker 2: want to do it with Willie. He's my guy. We've
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  Speaker 2: been wanting to kind of do this together for a while.
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  Speaker 2: They said, no problem. Let's get it going. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: right in the mix of that, Bart got let go.
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  Speaker 2: So it kind of is by God's grace and timing
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  Speaker 2: that we, you know, he stumbled out of one and
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  Speaker 2: fell into another one. And here we are trying to
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  Speaker 2: make magic for Playmaker. So shout out to them.
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  Speaker 3: Willie, as a New Yorker and somebody who later went
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  Speaker 3: on to play for the Jets, you've seen how much
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  Speaker 3: the Jets mean to that market. Do they finally have
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  Speaker 3: a team that's competent? Because I feel like competent has
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  Speaker 3: been the key word when it comes to this Jets team.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take competent. I'm good with that. Competent is the
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  Speaker 2: right word because they were just so bad last year, right?
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  Speaker 2: Going 3-14, they just didn't look like a competent team.
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  Speaker 2: And it started at the quarterback position. You know, Aaron Glenn...
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  Speaker 2: stepped into that market ballot. He had played for it,
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  Speaker 2: scouted for it, and obviously went to, you know, coached
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  Speaker 2: for a couple other organizations. But when he came back, man,
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  Speaker 2: he had sold the Jet fan base that this was
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  Speaker 2: going to be a rough, tough, physical, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be proud of the product on the field.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he kept saying. So week one against the Steelers,
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  Speaker 2: you watch that game, man. The Jets up front beat
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  Speaker 2: the hell out of the Steelers, right? It was a
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  Speaker 2: special team's mishaps that gave Aaron Rodgers back the ball
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  Speaker 2: in the red zone. Aaron Rodgers does what Aaron Rodgers does, scores,
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  Speaker 2: and the Steelers escape out of that building with a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: But what happened after that, you saw an avalanche. You
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  Speaker 2: saw a snowball of the team just pretty much implode.
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  Speaker 2: And they let go of Saltz Gardner. Quentin Williams goes
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  Speaker 2: to the Cowboys. And a lot of people was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: these guys aren't even competent. They're not even competing. People
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  Speaker 2: got to remember– That roster, what we saw towards the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the season, towards the back half, you're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with C-level ballplayers, right? You're dealing with guys who were
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  Speaker 2: on the practice squad. And so they couldn't compete. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't matter what the outfit looked like. With all that said,
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  Speaker 2: I think Aaron Rodgers was, excuse me, not Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Glenn was conscious and really, really had a man
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  Speaker 2: in the mirror moment where he said, This is my defense.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to call the defense. If I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go down, right, if I'm going to get, you know,
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  Speaker 2: exited out the building for whatever reason, I want to
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  Speaker 2: do it on my terms, and I want to give
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  Speaker 2: it an honest shot. So I think him calling this defense,
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  Speaker 2: him getting Frank Wright, who a lot of people respect
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  Speaker 2: in the business, them going out and getting Geno with
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  Speaker 2: a host of other veterans, this group needed to grow
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  Speaker 2: up from inside the locker room and out, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that's kind of the campaign right now for the
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  Speaker 2: New York Jets. They want to be adults on and
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  Speaker 2: off the field.
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  Speaker 4: Willie, as a former Jets offensive lineman, I got to
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  Speaker 4: ask you about another former Jets offensive lineman, Elijah Vera
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  Speaker 4: Tucker's comments where he said that the locker room, the
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  Speaker 4: Jets organization is accustomed to losing. What are your thoughts
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  Speaker 4: on what he had to say now playing for the Patriots?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's weird because I kind of felt the
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  Speaker 2: same way when I got to the Jets in 2013.
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  Speaker 2: They had lost to my Steelers a year prior to that.
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  Speaker 2: in the AFC Championship game. And when 2013 came around,
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  Speaker 2: which was Geno's first year, his rookie year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I got there, the locker room was kind of
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  Speaker 2: going through this identity crisis. And they, all the guys
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  Speaker 2: who were left in that locker room could talk about
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  Speaker 2: the yesteryears. You know, Alan Fanico was gone. Darrell Revis
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  Speaker 2: was now a buck at the time, right? You know,
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  Speaker 2: Jason Taylor was now retired. Bart Scott was now retired.
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  Speaker 2: So many of those guys, those pillars in our locker
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  Speaker 2: room were out. When I got to the Jets in 2013,
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  Speaker 2: we were the second youngest team in the league. And
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  Speaker 2: those young guys didn't have older guys to lean on,
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  Speaker 2: at least not enough of us, right? Because I was
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  Speaker 2: an implant just like them. The guys that were left
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room were Nick Mangold, Richard Shaw Ferguson,
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  Speaker 2: and David Harris, and Mo Wilkerson and a couple of
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  Speaker 2: other guys. Needless to say, a lot of those young
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  Speaker 2: guys didn't know what the Jets' culture was, right, because
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  Speaker 2: they weren't around for it. And the older guys that
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  Speaker 2: were there were kind of on the back nine and
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  Speaker 2: necessarily not vocal leaders. So if you have older guys
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  Speaker 2: not willing to show or talk about what made those
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  Speaker 2: teams in the past great, but yet the younger guys
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  Speaker 2: step into that role not knowing what to expect because
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  Speaker 2: they're younger themselves and they're trying to learn what it
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  Speaker 2: is to be a Jet, there's no middle class now
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room. And so– It took all the
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  Speaker 2: way to 2015 when Fitzpatrick and Brandon Marshall and some
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  Speaker 2: of the guys that were now old enough two or
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  Speaker 2: three years in their career to kind of say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is what it means to be a pro. This
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  Speaker 2: is what Jets culture is. This is how to survive
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  Speaker 2: the media market. Oh, this is what's expected of me.
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  Speaker 2: And then we lose, right, in that year because that
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  Speaker 2: was technically the only successful year the Jets had was
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  Speaker 2: in 2015. And then you start to see all the
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  Speaker 2: turmoil again. What you have is a group of guys who, one,
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  Speaker 2: go rogue. Two, don't understand what it is to be
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  Speaker 2: a Jet within the Jets culture. And three, there's so
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  Speaker 2: much instability from over your head into the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: You say, hey, man, I'm just here to do my time. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And so I can understand why he said that. Because
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  Speaker 2: when you step into other organizations like the Steelers, where
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  Speaker 2: from the door is preaching about his football first family history.
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  Speaker 2: And then we go kick ass, right? You step into
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  Speaker 2: New England, there's a mold, there's a model of what
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  Speaker 2: it means to be a Patriot. Seattle, same thing. So
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  Speaker 2: you have, there's, I guess, an oracle or a Bible
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  Speaker 2: of what it means to be a part of certain organizations.
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  Speaker 2: The Jets don't have that. And to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: winning's the ultimate deodorant. Everybody goes through their ish, if
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  Speaker 2: you will. But when you win, you get to kind
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  Speaker 2: of mask that up because, oh, we won, despite of
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  Speaker 2: what we look like in and out of the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like prison, being a Jet. It does. You're
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  Speaker 2: doing your time. Yeah. It does, right?
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  Speaker 1: Especially when you come from an organization like the one
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  Speaker 1: you played for before you got to the Jets. You're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get through it, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're trying to get through it because nobody
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  Speaker 2: else believes, right? And so now you're trying to get
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  Speaker 2: everybody in the locker room to believe in one goal.
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  Speaker 2: And I do think, you know, to be respectful to
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  Speaker 2: this team, I think because they do have Demario Davis
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  Speaker 2: and Mink and Fitzpatrick and some of these other guys,
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  Speaker 2: they have a really good offensive line. These guys are
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  Speaker 2: starting to believe in the campaign. And I say this,
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  Speaker 2: I had an opportunity to speak to the team in
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  Speaker 2: the summer and I had an opportunity to talk to
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  Speaker 2: him about media relations and all this other stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: that aside, man. there there's a clear understanding nothing matters
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  Speaker 2: unless they win right it doesn't matter what they say
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  Speaker 2: or what what they do or what they put out
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  Speaker 2: to be viral and then they have to win football
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  Speaker 2: games and they have to have play this season can't
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  Speaker 2: be over by halloween right they have to play be
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  Speaker 2: willing to play meaningful games in december and hopefully add
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  Speaker 2: a chance a shot at the table come playoff time
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  Speaker 2: so uh see that the table come playoff time excuse
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  Speaker 2: me so it's um they seem like a lot more
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  Speaker 2: serious football team from the guys I've talked to. There's
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  Speaker 2: a level like, no, we're not enough with the BS.
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  Speaker 2: We got to show up.
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  Speaker 3: Willie, if I told you in 2013 that in 2026,
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  Speaker 3: Geno Smith and Demario Davis would be captains for the
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  Speaker 3: Jets and winning in week one, how many Super Bowls
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  Speaker 3: would you imagine the Jets won during that stretch?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I don't know how to process that. So I
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  Speaker 2: know DeMar really well. And I've gotten to know him
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  Speaker 2: and his family really well. His wife and my wife.
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  Speaker 2: My wife's from Jackson, Mississippi, and they're from Mississippi. So
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  Speaker 2: we're family at this point. Gino, I had an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to speak briefly with when I was visiting the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: And they collectively, between the both of them, understand like
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  Speaker 2: they're just they don't want they want if both of
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  Speaker 2: them along the two from a career standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If they were to write the end of the chapter
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  Speaker 2: and to be in New York, they want it to
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  Speaker 2: be a positive one. So collectively, I think they both
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  Speaker 2: have an understanding, man, what was, what was behind us
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  Speaker 2: is behind us. They want to move forward. And so
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  Speaker 2: to have them back in the building, building is huge,
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  Speaker 2: especially for Aaron Glenn, because I think if you want
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  Speaker 2: to get veterans back in the building, they're, they're ambassadors
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  Speaker 2: of you. Yes. Right. And so they have to believe
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  Speaker 2: what comes out of your mouth so they can tell
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the locker room, like, nah, he's good. Let's, let's,
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  Speaker 2: let's listen. And so it was important. And, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: just i think it's just relative i think it's relative
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  Speaker 2: to where the jets are right now i think so
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  Speaker 2: many people are just ready to dump the past and
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  Speaker 2: take on the new um and aaron glenn is trying
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  Speaker 2: to usher this team in that direction but you need
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  Speaker 2: veteran guys to kind of campaign your message and he hasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Uh willie i am not here to piss you off
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  Speaker 1: okay and i will say this.
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  Speaker 2: On the front no no there's no reason to i
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  Speaker 2: didn't have lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Yet no i'm sorry i'm sorry i've already pissed you
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  Speaker 1: off i even asked the question yet i'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: on the front end i don't want to piss you
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  Speaker 1: off because you're a big man and i'm terrified of
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  Speaker 1: you um so this is what i'm gonna ask you
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  Speaker 1: i am a man who picked the jets and the
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  Speaker 1: bears to make it to the super bowl just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago me and mikey were out in
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  Speaker 1: arrowhead stadium i had to make pre-season predictions and I
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  Speaker 1: want Jets and Bears to make it to the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: With that as the backdrop, how do you feel about
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  Speaker 1: this year's Super Bowl prediction by you of the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys?
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  Speaker 2: Cocaine's a hell of a drug, huh? Man, I was
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: so disappointed, dog. I was so disappointed in the damn
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys and Chargers game. I can't even process. So for
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers, I was hella disappointed in their play style.
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  Speaker 2: I felt they were just going to be the more explosive,
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  Speaker 2: way more explosive than what they put on tape. And defensively,
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  Speaker 2: I just thought they were going to be way more dominant.
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  Speaker 2: That didn't happen. I'm more upset with the Cowboys because
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  Speaker 2: I genuinely believed in my heart that Christian Parker, the
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  Speaker 2: new defensive coordinator for the Cowboys, was we were going
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  Speaker 2: to see a different brand of Cowboys. I just believed it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't tell me any different. I just felt like Valley,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't acquire a lot of superstars in free agency,
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  Speaker 2: but they got a lot of guys who played a
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  Speaker 2: lot of football and who were relevant. Man, the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: are in trouble defensively. I'm more worried about the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: than I am the Chargers because what we saw from
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys on Sunday looked nothing different from what we
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  Speaker 2: saw last year. And that was a defense that gave
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  Speaker 2: up 30 points. There was miscommunication on the back end.
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  Speaker 2: They got bullied at the line of scrimmage. They couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get to Justin Dart to save their life. And schematically,
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  Speaker 2: when you run the 3-4, one of the hardest things
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  Speaker 2: about running the 3-4 is marrying the front end with
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  Speaker 2: the back end. There was a complete disconnect. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he continued to allow the Giants to
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  Speaker 2: throw the ball into the flat and nickel and dime
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  Speaker 2: them was absolutely baffling to me. It was just because
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  Speaker 2: they try to play cloud coverage and they try to
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  Speaker 2: do different things, and it just wasn't mirrored. So... With
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  Speaker 2: all that said, I think for the Cowboys, man, in
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  Speaker 2: which they got out-schemed and out-physicaled, I'm more worried about
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  Speaker 2: them because I just believe the offense will be elite.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to outscore everybody, but the defense just had
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  Speaker 2: to be good enough, and they're going to walk out
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  Speaker 2: the building with enough Ws. That did not happen. And
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  Speaker 2: so I'm more worried. The Chargers, I think they will
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  Speaker 2: figure it out. I think they just had to drink
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: a little humble juice. Obviously, they did so. But the Cowboys,
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  Speaker 2: I'm more worried about.
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  Speaker 1: Bills-Lions tonight, that's a great game for the first Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night game of the season. It feels like this game
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  Speaker 1: should be played in December. It's being played tonight. What
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts on tonight's game?
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  Speaker 2: It comes down to what defense decides to show up.
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  Speaker 2: I think we know both offenses could run, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: could go, excuse me. But I think it comes down
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  Speaker 2: to You know, when it comes down to Detroit, they
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  Speaker 2: let up, I think, 400-something yards, right? It was something
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  Speaker 2: crazy like that. I could be wrong. I apologize. And
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  Speaker 2: they wasn't stout in the red zone as well. I
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  Speaker 2: think for the Buffalo Bills, I think they were able
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  Speaker 2: to subdue some of Houston's run game. They got lit up, too.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it comes down to what defense right
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  Speaker 2: now shows up. I'm not worried about offensively. Josh Allen's
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  Speaker 2: an alien. I mean, what he did last Sunday, forget
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  Speaker 2: about it. I mean, it's just– It was one of
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  Speaker 2: them kind of Jordan 55-type games that I think we
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  Speaker 2: all witnessed it. Yes. But I think from a Detroit–
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  Speaker 2: you know, the ball goes to Jamer Gibbs. Bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: if you stop him, you pretty much split their offense
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  Speaker 2: in half. So that's going to be a big task
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  Speaker 2: for the Buffalo Bills. But collectively, I think what defense
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  Speaker 2: shows up in the situation of football, because that's key.
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  Speaker 2: I think both– when you talk about what you expect,
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  Speaker 2: I think if you're the Buffalo Bills, your ability to
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  Speaker 2: get to the quarterback is going to be key. And
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  Speaker 2: I think if you're the Lions defense right now, and
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say this, DJ Reed is a liability.
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  Speaker 2: And as a guy who loved DJ Reed as a Jet,
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  Speaker 2: because I thought he was scrappy, I think he was
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  Speaker 2: the better corner than Sauce Garner at the time, what
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  Speaker 2: he did against Chris Olave can't happen. Like, he just
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  Speaker 2: didn't play well. And Chris Olave had a day against him. So...
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of my eye in the sky type thing.
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  Speaker 3: Willie, outside of my family, I love the New York
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  Speaker 3: Yankees more than anything in this world. Before this season,
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  Speaker 3: I said I wouldn't trade Cam Schlittler for Paul Skeens,
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  Speaker 3: and one of the people that laughed at me was
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  Speaker 3: Michael Kay. So now people are considering me the voice
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  Speaker 3: of the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: We all laughed at you. I mean, in fairness to Michael,
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  Speaker 2: I did. Yes. Everybody. I saw Paul. I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: So I would have laughed too.
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  Speaker 1: Would you still be laughing though? Because it appears that
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  Speaker 1: he was right. Taylor's right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no, he's definitely right. I'm just saying I
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  Speaker 2: would have been with the other guys laughing as well.
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  Speaker 3: Where's your level of confidence with this Yankee team entering
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: the post season?
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Uh, So, listen, I think it comes down to Judge,
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  Speaker 2: bottom line. I think since he's been back, there's been
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: a momentum. There's a surgence now, I think, with his
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  Speaker 2: ability to– I think it's the lineup. I know a
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: lot of people are talking about Volpe. I don't know if–
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  Speaker 2: you can answer this too. Maybe you can help me
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  Speaker 2: because it seems like you're more in the weeds than
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: I am. Volpe being back and having production and being efficient,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like good for the kid because I was worried–
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I was worried about this kid never playing baseball again
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: once he got put down. You know what I mean?
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Because being a kid from New York, his first-round draft pick,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: had his struggles, and I have an opportunity. I jump
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: on a fan, and obviously, like you guys, I talk
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: to the callers, and everybody's like, da-da-da-da. And then once
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: we got George Lombardo Jr., I was like, Volpe's done.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I think this guy may be working at Chick-fil-A. I
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: was worried about that. Then he comes back to New York,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: and the tandem between them two, I love it. So...
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: All in all, man, I was worried about Volpe, and
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: I was worried about his mental state, and I don't
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: know why. I'm not his dad. But I thought it
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: was a lot from the New York market. Needless to say,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: try not to be all over the place. I think
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Yankees will be fine, man. I think it just comes
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: down to the batting judge and how consistent he can be.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: I think part of it with Volpe is almost that
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: second chance where he probably had the same thoughts as you. Like,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I might never get a chance to be back in
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: the MLB again. And then a couple of weeks later,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: he's back and now he's kind of capitalizing on that opportunity.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: That grand slam he hit the other night, I almost
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: choked up and I was like giving my kid a
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Capri Sun in the process. My dad, I played in
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: this market, you know what I mean? I just know
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: how hard it is, especially when, and like, so you
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: guys are privy to, I remember what happened to, I
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: remember how bad, and I'm just pointing out guys who
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: got destroyed by the media in the last 10 years.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Like I remember how bad this media dragged Eric Flowers
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: for the Giants. I remember how bad they dragged Evan Neal. Like,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I've just seen somehow the New York market is already, like,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: it's daunted, it's hard. But once in a while, they
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: just pick one guy, and they're like, we're going to
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: absolutely tear your head off. And they kind of show
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the rest of the world, this is what we do
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: to our athletes. And I felt like that's what they
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: were doing to Anthony Volpe. And so I'll just, you know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: me jumping on the fence. Sometimes I would just hear
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: these calls, man. I just like, good God, I'm so
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: happy I retired. I would have went looking for somebody
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: to do it. Right.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: And this is a fan base who has won more
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: World Series than any.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Fan base in baseball. Look at them. The Yankees are
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs with it. Nine out of 10 years. Like,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: what are we doing right now? But they talk about
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: the Yankees as if, like, they're the most cancerous. It
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: baffles me. Like, we're in the World Series. We lost,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: but we're in the World Series.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Willie, the most sad I've ever been is when they
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: were questioning Joey Gallo about his struggles in the Bronx.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: And then when Joey Gallo, they were like, how do
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: you handle going outside? Joey Gallo was like, I just don't.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But, you know, but bro, you say that and
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: people think you're like, oh, you're just being funny or
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: like you just kind of like that's real. Like I
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: even even my time as a jet and I was homegrown.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I'm a Bronx kid. I grew up in the New
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: York market. I grew up reading the daily news. I
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: grew up listening to Mad Dog, you know, Mike and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the Mad Dog, all that stuff. And me as a jet.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: And I would go to clubs and restaurants. I would
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: always get a tap on the shoulder from one dying
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Jets fan. Willie, what are we doing? I'm like, man,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to get through the mashed potatoes. I
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: don't know, dog. I'm out here trying to play. You
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? But no matter where I stepped outside,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: whatever borough I was in, I always got a tap
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: on the shoulder. It was either about what's going on
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: with Rex? Who is it? Why is he here? It
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: was just a barrage of, so after a while, you're like, dude,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to Uber Eats it. I'm going to
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: stay in today.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Willie, we'll let you go in just a second. This
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: has been great. I would like to offer you a
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: job as our Bronx correspondent. Add another job to your
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: resume here. You and Taylor can do a Yankee podcast.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Are you in?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Can you be our Yankee correspondent here?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: The more you can do. I'm with it. Sign me up. Done. Yes.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: We just signed Willie Colon.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: What an exciting day for us. Hopefully he'll have time
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to do it. He's a busy man. Check out the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: new podcast, The Barton Willie Show. You can find it
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: on Apple or YouTube. You want to promote that? Tell
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: people what they can expect, Willie.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Man, so me and the great, the loud mouth, Mr.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Can't Wait Bart Scott have decided to do a podcast
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: talking everything underneath the sun in regards to sports. But
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: we also want to show the human aspect. We're both dads. Now,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Bart's in the streets, in them sheets. I'm a happily
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: married man. So that's where we separate. But we're both dads.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: We're both into the culture. And we want to share
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: our personality and perspectives about what we feel about sports
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: and life and everything. And we're excited to do so.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: So once again, thank you to the good people at Playmaker.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Shout-out to our producer, Mark Seaman. We call him Mark Nutter. So,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: we're doing it, man. We're excited for the opportunity. All right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Mondays and Fridays, check us out. All right.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: And, again, it's on Apple or YouTube. Also, Good Morning
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Football on ESPN, Steelers Radio 12 to 2 on iHeart, SMY,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Jets pre- and post-game show, and now a new Yankee
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: podcast with Taylor. Willie Colon, we appreciate it, my friend.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us, sir. Respect, bro. Thank you
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: guys for the opportunity. All right, man. Thank you.